3:03 PM,
Jul. 29, 2013

Rutgers incoming athletic director Julie Hermann answers a question during a news conference outside of the university's Hale Center in Piscataway, N.J., Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Hermann says the problems she encountered as a women's volleyball coach at Tennessee are part of the reason she's a good fit as a sports administrator. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) ORG XMIT: NJME106

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Ryan Dunleavy, USA TODAY Sports

As the leader of the first coalition in higher education to commit to the You Can Play Project, which seeks to ensure that LGBT athletes are given the same fair opportunity to be judged on the playing field as their heterosexual counterparts, Amy Huchthausen is eagerly awaiting the time when sexual orientation is not a story in athletics.

Until then, the commissioner of the America East Conference is proud of people like new Rutgers athletics director Julie Hermann, who revealed she is gay in her official biography on ScarletKnights.com.